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SRO Enforcement Committee visits Johor Baru firm

Contributed by Emily Lee Lai Ming (Executive Officer)

Tuesday, 01 August 2006 09:07am

KUALA LUMPUR, Tues: A high ranking team from the SRO Enforcement Committee paid a law firm in Johor Baru a visit last Friday as part of a further measure in enforcing the Solicitors’ Remuneration Order.

The firm had earlier filed its returns twice for a two-week period and another for a three-month period which involved a total of more than 770 conveyancing transactions. This made a visit by the Committee necessary in order to verify the information contained in the said firm's returns.

On Friday, the team comprising Bar Councillors Tony Woon (Ngeri Sembilan), Asmadi Awang (Terengganu), Deputy Chair of SRO Enforcement Committee, Ong Siew Wan (Pahang), Committee members Datuk A. Ramanathan (Pahang) and Nicholas Chang (Kuala Lumpur) and executive officer, Emily Lee, spent the whole day sifting through all the relevant documents related to those transactions. The partners of the said firm accorded full cooperation to the visiting team.

When contacted, the Chairman of the SRO Enforcement Committee, Roger Tan said: "We have identified several firms in every State where a visit is necessary. In fact, we received the most number of complaints about law firms in Penang and Perak breaching the SRO."

"Our next visit will be to either Ipoh or Penang", added Tan.

Meanwhile, Justice Wan Afrah bt. Wan Ibrahim of the the Appellate and Special Powers Division will hear lawyer Abdul Razak Bin Hashim's originating summons to declare the Solicitors' Remuneration (Enforcement) Rules 2004 ("SRER") null and void on August 7.

To view the latest affidavits in reply filed by Razak and the Malaysian Bar, please click on the links below:

Abdul Razak Hashim's affidavit-in-reply dated 14 July 2006

Affidavit in Reply of the Malaysian Bar dated 28 July 2006

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written by Ng Chee Keong, Tuesday, August 01 2006 02:51 pm

For completeness sake can the Bar Council allow download for the OS and other relevant cause paper as well instead of just the affidavit in reply dated 14th July, 06 and Affidavit dated 28th July, 06.

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MBW: Yes, it is already in the Resource Centre. Please click here to download.

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